Re: [CR]Mystery 1970's ? brake lever - Now: Weinmann

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From: <FujiFish1@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:58:22 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Mystery 1970's ? brake lever - Now: Weinmann
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: Stronglight49@aol.com

Thanks for that link, Bob! So is the Weinmann lever depicted at your link, what you are referring to as the earlier style, or the more contemporary shape of the 80s? This drawing appears to be exactly like my lever, except that mine does have the cable slot in front. Thanks...

Ciao, Mark Agree Southfield MI USA ~ ~ ~

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:03:48 EDT From: Stronglight49@aol.com To: fred_rednor@yahoo.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Mystery 1970's ? brake lever

Fred, You may be thinking of some earlier Weinmann levers. Some even had a vertical WEINMANN lettering stamped into the lever arms which mimicked Campagnolo S/R markings. By the 1980s when they began to update their top level calipers and levers, they also changed those lever bodies to a more contemporary shape.

Here is one example of a Carrera lever blown up from one catalogue page... they changed very slightly during a few years in actual production, and some even included the cable slot at the front of the body which was an even more common feature on later Dia-Compe Grand Compe models.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/2859789100_dd1f66c819_o.jpg

BOB HANSON, ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, USA

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